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Kenyan Domestic Workers’ Doomed Voyages to the Gulf

Link to Article: https://allafrica.com/stories/202201150084.html Many Kenyan workers are immigrating to Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states to work as house helpers and other unskilled or low skill jobs. Many workers are being treated in very poor conditions that are akin to slavery. The wages that they are receiving are much less than the amount that they were promised. These workers… Read more »

Liberia: House Speaker Chambers Calls On United States to Increase Support to Liberia

Link to Article: https://allafrica.com/stories/202201110449.html The government of Liberia is asking for an increase in monetary support from the United States. Liberia is asking for money that will help with Covid relief and to help the economy grow. Liberia is comparing the money that they are asking for to the Marshall Plan after World War II. Liberia was founded in 1822… Read more »

Calls Grow Louder for U.S. to Remove Sanctions on Zimbabwe

Link to Article: https://allafrica.com/view/group/main/main/id/00080019.html Zimbabwe is calling for sanctions that the United States has placed on them to be removed. Zimbabwe is saying that these sanctions must be removed by October 25th of next year. Zimbabwe has asked for the Southern African Development Community and for other countries in Africa to call for the United States to remove the sanctions…. Read more »

South Africa: Pandor Says South Africa Will Lobby for Israel’s African Union Observer Status to Be Rescinded

Link to Article: https://allafrica.com/stories/202112150162.html Israel has been granted observer status to the African Union. This decision was made by Moussa Faki Mahamat the Chair of the African Union without the consent of member states and some of the members are outraged. South Africa is hoping that the decision will be reversed by the African Union during their Spring Summit happening… Read more »